Community Mental Health Team Manager Job London area,Greater London England UK,Healthcare

Location: Greater London

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Team Manager

The closing date is 20 September 2026

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Lambeth older adults community mental health team (CMHT) as the team manager. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual who is committed to working with older adults and wants to develop or consolidate their management skills within a supportive team. The successful applicant will have a proven ability to lead in implementing and sustaining changes, and an ability to work collaboratively and bring people together.

The Lambeth CMHT provides community based mental health care for people over the age of 65 (or patients under this age with an early-onset dementia) living in the London borough of Lambeth. You would be working within a dedicated team of multi-disciplinary professionals, and be part of a supportive network of community team managers and clinical specialists. Crucial to the role is the ability to communicate effectively with staff, service users, carers and outside agencies, and to think flexibly and creatively.

The role is a band 7 full time post and is open to health and social work professionals with a current clinical registration.

Main duties of the job

The team manager's role is to take overall operational management responsibility for the CMHT. They will work with a small leadership team comprising a clinical nurse specialist, clinical specialist OT, and two consultant psychiatrists to ensure that the services provided by the CMHT are evidence-based, efficient, responsive, needs led, user-focussed and of the highest quality, and that the team is a reflective learning environment where practitioners feel supported to learn from each other, and feedback from patients and carers is valued.

The CMHT is a multi-disciplinary team comprising community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, psychology and psychotherapy staff, psychiatrists and administrators, and operates on an annual budget of approximately £1.9 million, including around 20 whole-time equivalent staff. The team manager is responsible for ensuring the team is managed in a financially sustainable way, and that all Trust policies and procedures are adhered to, including supervision and appraisal, sickness and annual leave management, and health and safety.

The role will include regular review of data on activity and performance, and leading service improvement work to address any areas of need within this. It will also involve working closely with other teams across PMOA, as well as the governance team, safeguarding lead, professional leads, business manager and clinical service lead to ensure a joined-up approach to care and team development.

Job

responsibilities

1) To ensure the effective operational management of the CMHT. To ensure procedures are in place to support receipt of referrals, assessment, allocation and closing of cases. To ensure systems are in place to register and review service users under CPA and Section 117 aftercare.

2) To ensure that all relevant Trust, Social Services and local policies are complied with including Safeguarding procedures and the Care Act 2014. To assist in the development of integrated operational and clinical policies to support the work of community services in keeping with national and local policy.

3) To arrange regular team meetings, seek to promote a working environment which is open, honest, supportive as well as forward and outward looking. To promote equality and value diversity. To actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice, policy and best evidence alongside appropriate training.

4) To ensure the efficient use of human resources ensuring safe levels of staffing which reflect the necessary and appropriate skill mix. To lead on the recruitment and selection of staff within the CMHT. To monitor sickness absence, annual leave, training and study leave, taking any appropriate management action as required in keeping with Trust policy and procedures.

5) Coordinate and delegate work and review staff performance. To work with professional leads to ensure arrangements are in place within the team for effective management and professional/clinical supervision of staff and caseloads. To ensure all staff are in receipt of regular appraisal and professional development support.

6) To develop and maintain procedures which result in…